[PDF] A Day In The Life Of Pacific Southwest Airlines eBook

Author : Philip C. Freedman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
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ISBN : 9781522945062

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In 1949 Kenny Friedkin, with his flashy Hawaiian shirts, was a post-World War II flight instructor in the small and lazy town of San Diego just north of the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Friedkin founded Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in the early spring of 1949 with a $1,000 a month leased Douglas DC-3 aircraft. With the one DC-3 aircraft, PSA started weekly roundtrip service from San Diego to Oakland via Burbank and within two years PSA began flying north to San Francisco. By the early eighties Pacific Southwest Airlines had grown to a major commercial airline carrying more than seven million passengers each year. This is the story of the company and their employees that made PSA a one of a kind and unique airlines. PSA........

Author : Alan Renga
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1439640343

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With its low fares and friendly service, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was one of the most successful regional airlines in American history. Its distinctive orange, red, and white planes, complete with a beaming smile were immediately recognizable to those living on the West Coast. The airline was also known for employing beautiful and sociable flight attendants. Kenny Friedkin, the founder of PSA, started in 1949 with one leased DC-3 and expanded his fleet to serve millions of passengers each year. Although PSA is no longer in operation, its successful business model of low-priced, efficient service was copied by other airlines and today is considered the norm. In addition, former PSA employees still gather annually to relive the camaraderie they experienced as being a part of one of the most unique airlines of all time.

Author : Gary Kissel
Publisher :
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Airlines
ISBN : 9781888962185

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Complete history of the innovative Californian airline that pioneered deep-discount-fare commercial passenger service, and served as a model for others to follow.

Author : Alan Renga
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780738581125

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With its low fares and friendly service, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was one of the most successful regional airlines in American history. Its distinctive orange, red, and white planes, complete with a beaming smile were immediately recognizable to those living on the West Coast. The airline was also known for employing beautiful and sociable flight attendants. Kenny Friedkin, the founder of PSA, started in 1949 with one leased DC-3 and expanded his fleet to serve millions of passengers each year. Although PSA is no longer in operation, its successful business model of low-priced, efficient service was copied by other airlines and today is considered the norm. In addition, former PSA employees still gather annually to relive the camaraderie they experienced as being a part of one of the most unique airlines of all time.

Author : Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
Publisher : Bradley Kuhns,Ph.D.,O.M.D.
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780944647158

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Bradley W. Kuhns, son of Mary Basits took this wonderful ladies notes that she put on paper at the age 85 year- old. At 85-years-old she sat down and wrote approximately 200 (single-spaced pages on a Smith Corona typewriter.They were discovered after her death in 1989. So, Bradley decided to organize them as she put them down on paper (without) changing typos or grammar so as not to take away form the elderly woman's presence.

Author : Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
Publisher : Bradley Kuhns,Ph.D.,O.M.D.
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983238049

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This book is the life and times of Mary Basits Steinhauer from her birth in 1899 to her death in 1989. Mary sat down at age 85 years old and typed out over 200 pages (single spaced)of memories relating to her life. Following her death, her son, Bradley W. Kuhns put the pages into a book. He used all the same typos, and grammar errors that she had put down on paper so as to no take away from her authentic writings. It is worth reading the life of this wonderful ladies trials and tribulation as described by her through her eyes and writing.

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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1960-07-25
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